Bitcoin Development Fund
Who We Fund Software developers focused on enhancing Bitcoin and related freedom technologies’ privacy, security, and decentralization. Human rights defenders and activists using Bitcoin to counteract financial surveillance, censorship, confiscation, and financial repression. Educators creating content and resources that highlight Bitcoin’s potential for financial freedom, especially for people living in oppressive environments. Community builders fostering […]
HRF Bitcoin Development Fund Grants 1 Billion Satoshis to 20 Projects Worldwide
HRF calls for the unconditional release of Indian human rights activist Umar Khalid
HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #40
The Financial Freedom Report is a newsletter focusing on the role currency and banking play in the civil liberties and human rights struggles of those living under authoritarian regimes. We also spotlight new tools and applications that can help individuals protect their financial freedom. Subscribe Good morning, readers! This week, Bitcoin took center stage in […]
A History of Sports & Dictators, Part 3: Post-WWII Soft Power
Franco’s Football: Spanish nationalism and diplomacy Brazil: Pelé and the generals Mobutu’s Zaire: Football, Pelé and ‘the Rumble in the Jungle’ General Videla and the 1978 World Cup Long before the inception of the Olympic Games in Ancient Greece, sports have been used to distract the masses, test foreign policies, thaw diplomatic tensions, and broadcast […]
Despots and oligarchs have many means to meddle in American politics
HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #39
The Financial Freedom Report is a newsletter focusing on the role currencyand banking play in the civil liberties and human rights struggles of thoseliving under authoritarian regimes. We also spotlight new tools andapplications that can help individuals protect their financial freedom. Subscribe to the newsletter Good morning, readers! In Syria, Bashar al-Assad’s economic policies continue […]
HRF interviews Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado on financial repression and freedom
New York (Sept. 5, 2024) – On Thursday, Bitcoin Magazine published a video of the Human Rights Foundation’s (HRF) chief strategy officer, Alex Gladstein, interviewing María Corina Machado, leader of Venezuela’s democratic opposition, about the destruction the Chavismo have caused to Venezuela’s monetary system and how many Venezuelans use Bitcoin to escape or find their […]
Venezuela Solidarity Fund
Who we Fund HRF’s Venezuela Solidarity Fund aims to provide financial assistance to the courageous, nonviolent individuals and organizations inside Venezuela who, in the face of the immense brutality of the Maduro regime, are working heroically and tirelessly to make their clear electoral win be recognized and, in that way, secure the peaceful transition to […]
Oslo Scholars
If your university is interested in facilitating internships through the Oslo Scholars program, email [email protected] Our Impact Oslo Scholars Placed in Internships Since 2010 0 University Partners 0 Past/Present Organizational Partners 0 Testimonials This program will change your life. Not only through the ideas you engage, but through the undeniably inspiring people you’ll meet. Margaret […]
